Before announcing this Wednesday that she will not answer the questions of the deputies of the Madrid Assembly, Begoña Gómez, the wife of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, explains the reasons for her silence: “All this has an obvious political objective ”. His complaint, which is a complaint against the campaign of “judicial complaints and hoaxes” that he describes having received, echoes during the first session of the commission promoted in the regional Parliament by the PP of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to investigate the alleged “favorable treatment”. ” received by the professional at the Complutense University. There, amidst the shouts of the deputies (“they are denigrating the institutions!” complains one of the PSOE), Gómez makes a brief introduction, interrupted by the complaints of the PP, and then explains that he will not respond to anyone on the advice of his lawyer. Sánchez’s wife is being investigated in court for the alleged commission of the crimes of .
“Good morning everyone,” Gómez begins. “President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all allow me to state the following in less than a minute: I have been working in consulting and teaching for 25 years. I have coordinated teams, directed projects, I have advised in the private sector and the third sector,” he lists. “12 years ago I began a collaboration with the Complutense University to train professionals specialized in social and sustainability projects,” he recalls. “It is in 2020 when this collaboration is expanded with the creation of an extraordinary professorship, which is a common practice within public universities, and not paid,” he adds. “I am fully aware that both this commission and the collection of judicial complaints are hoaxes,” she continues while MP Zarzalejo, from the PP, interrupts her. And he concludes: “All this has an obvious political objective. They just have to look at the list of complainants. For this reason, and on the advice of my lawyer, I am going to take advantage of my right not to answer questions. Sooner rather than later, the truth will put things right.”
The professional relationship between Gómez and the UCM began in 2014, and ended this year, when, in the middle of the judicial investigation, the university canceled Sánchez’s wife as teaching. In the meantime, the Complutense. In this way, until last year, Gómez appeared on the educational center’s website as co-director of a and a . In the latter it also appeared as .
The popular ones are especially interested in using the Assembly’s investigation commission to put Gómez’s relationship with the rector Joaquín Goyache in the spotlight, and in having him explain the decision adopted during his mandate to promote this second title, what criteria was applied for Gómez to direct its chair, and the relationship with the companies that finance them.
Sánchez’s wife arrives at the Assembly pressing the clock. It has already passed 10:00, the time at which she is summoned, when she runs at full speed the few meters that connect the door of the elevator that takes her up from the parking lot and the door of the room where the committee is held. She is escorted by a large group of PSOE deputies, who accompany her between a wall and the columns that support the upper hallway, keeping her as far away as possible from journalists, cameras and flashes. But nothing prevents the tension that is experienced later inside.
In addition to Gómez, this Wednesday the rector of the UCM, Joaquín Goyache, also investigated by justice, and who does not rule out answering questions, will also appear; and the educational center’s auditor, Elvira Gutiérrez-Vierna.
